TOKYO >> Watching “Oppenheimer,” the Oscar-winning biopic about the father of the atomic bomb that opened in Japan in late March, Kako Okuno was stunned by a scene in which scientists celebrated the ...

A minute-by-minute guide on how to survive a nuclear bomb attack, and ways to be prepared for war.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A massive tsunami generated by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck Japan's coast within 30 minutes. Waves as high as 130 feet spilled over seawalls. Within days, three nuclear reactors were disabled.

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons ...

“I do think that if Japan wants to show the world that it too should be reckoned with, then maybe it really should have nuclear weapons.” :: Tokyo, Japan Tatsuaki Takahashi grew up in Hiroshima. On ...

As reported by Le Figaro, Japan is taking its first steps toward the construction of a new nuclear reactor—marking the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster that the country has considered ...

If all workers do in fact leave the plant, the nuclear fuel in all three reactors is likely to melt down, which would lead to wholesale releases of radioactive material — by far the largest accident ...

The conclusion of World War II came with a daunting choice that forever changed history: the use of atomic bombs on Japan. But few know this fact: there was a third atomic bomb, perhaps bound for a ...